UNDER-ESTIMATION......There is always more than what you see/know.

It’s a beautiful wet Friday morning in the city of Lagos. I welcome you to “Zicolo Today”. Today’s discussion focuses on teaching us never to 'UNDERESTIMATE' someone/oneself or even anything in life. Believe me, no one knows what a person is capable of until that person is placed in a position where his/her potentials can blossom/develop. Unfortunately, underestimating someone's potential has become too common in the way we relate with each other, especially between a superior and subordinate, a lady and her male friend (Wooer), a wife and her husband, an employer and the employee. Many parents have suffered great misfortune as a result of underestimating their children. Sometimes too, some people underestimate themselves, which to me is the greatest undoing anyone can do to himself/herself.

Underestimating someone's potential, whether it is your own or someone else's has many negative consequences. If you are underestimating someone, you are underestimating yourself. Everyone was born with unlimited opportunities, potentials and gifts. I have seen people with no much brain excel in life, people of poor family background becoming billionaires etc. Perhaps you are reading this and you feel there are limits to what you can achieve, what you can become in life. I dare say that you are the only one that can limit yourself. Never compare yourself with others. Never underestimate the importance of anything/anyone. Underestimating others only means that you are over-estimating your knowledge of them. Never underestimate the power of dreams and visions. The potential for greatness lives inside. Never underestimate the power of jealousy and that of envy to destroy. To the men, I would say “Never underestimate the power of women”. May God help us all. Have a great weekend.